Frances Wimberly Tooke was born on 24 March 1886, the second child of John Lawson Wimberly Jr. and Alice Martha Bryan Wimberly. She spent her life rooted in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
On 20 January 1907, Frances married James Howard Tooke in Bienville Parish. James was born on 11 October 1885 in Ringgold, Bienville Parish, Louisiana, and was the son of Edwin Arthur Tooke and Susan Harriett Sledge.
Frances and James had three known children: Karl B. Tooke, Henry Seward Tooke, and Susie Tooke.
Frances died on 17 July 1975 and is buried in Wimberly Cemetery in Bienville Parish, Louisiana, along with her husband, James, who died in 1979.
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Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/90292349/frances-tooke: accessed May 22, 2026), memorial page for Frances Wimberly Tooke (1886–1975), Find a Grave Memorial ID 90292349, citing Wimberly Cemetery, Bienville, Bienville Parish, Louisiana, USA; Maintained by A Footstep In Time (contributor 47345816).
Frances Wimberly Tooke, photographs, no date; digital images, from the privately held photo collection of Marguerite Cook Clark (1913-1989), Waynesville, North Carolina, 2021. Photos were accessed and scanned at the home of Marguerite Cook Clark's daughter in Alpine, Texas, on April 28, 2014, September 14, 2014, and November 9 to 11, 2016. Used with permission.
Vera Meeks Wimberly, Wimberly Family History, Ancestors, Relatives, and Descendants of William Wimberly, Pioneer from Georgia to Louisiana 1837 (Houston Texas: D. Anderson, 1979), page 267-268.
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